So what about the good things we owe to religion? Architecture. Painting. Atheism. But especially music. I happen to be especially partial to Bach's B-minor Mass, but what follows isn't exactly chopped liver. Rory Gallagher was an Irish blues guitarist who lived hard and died hard, at age 47 of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Here he is, age 24, at The Marquee Club in London, April 1972:
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I saw Rory play on several occasions in Ireland and he was always a class act. I'm not sure that "lived hard and died hard" is the best description for his life - at least not in comparison to other musicians who died prematurely. Rory was known for being an intensely shy individual off stage and wasn't renowned for the partying excesses of many of his peers. His brother claims that, while he didn't drink so much, alcohol probably contributed, along with several medications he was taking for anxiety attacks, to the liver damage that necessitated the liver transplant. He picked up the infection that led to his death during this operation.